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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1886.
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THK BANNER COUNTY OF Till UNION.
Berkeley county, South Carol i mi, in
the sun and center of the hlack belt, and
the heart of the ninth congressional din-
trict represented in congress by the noto
rious “gulla statesman,” the negro
“General” Robert .Smalls. The “brother
in black” is as thick in Berkeley as the
biblical lice were in Kgypt, and they all
belong to the “trooly loil ’—they all vote
the republican ticket. Berkeley is a
very large and a very wealthy county in
spite of its political disadvantages, and at
the democratic county convention held
in Alt. Pleasant a few days ago, it was
to subscribers, postage free, a. *1.111 a year. evident that the same spirit which swept
Transient advertisements will be taken fortlie ! Wade Hampton into the governor 8 chan
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Insertion, ami for the Weekly at $1 for each in-
■ertion.
All communications intended to promote the
private ends or Interests of corporations, societies
or Individuals will be chanted as advertisements.
Special contracts made for advertising by the
year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary
rates.
None but solid metal cuts used.
All communications should be addressed to the
Enquibhr-Hun.
What does it mean? The Cincinnati
Enquirer nays “more sIiivch lire being
sold on the penitentiary auction block.”
The lowest point of the thermometer
at St. Vincent on the -11 h instant -van :s:!°.
The highest at Key West on the same
dav was 82°.
The republican executive committee
lms bitterly grieved Governor Foruker
by suggesting that a considerable lapse
of time might lie advisable before he
makes any more campaign speeches.
It seems singular that Pennsylvania,
where labor is“proteeted,”a big court has
to come in to save the workingman from
the swindling store-order system. Penn
sylvania lias made enough oil' her sister
states to pity her workmen handsomely
in cash, even when they are foreigners
imported to take the places of Ameri
cans.
Tub eighteenth annual meeting of the
American Woman -Suffrage Association
is to he hold at Topeka, Kansas, oil the
Uiitli, 27th and 2.8th inst. The hall oft lie
house of representatives is to lie surren
dered to their tender mercies. Brother
Wiggins has not predicted any earth
quake for that period.
New Yoke Si n: There is no particu
lar need of having a political campaign
in Georgia this year, as General Gordon
lias everything his own way, but he
can’t lie blamed for making a speech
once in a while, as he did at Bainbridge
the other day after “riding to the grounds
in a chariot in which were seated thir
teen beautiful girls.” Our esteemed con
temporary, the Savannah News, remarks
that “Kadicalism is dead in Decatur."
Of course. Who’s going to bo a radical
when all the pretty girls are on the
other side?
Theiik are more political and religious
cranks loose this year than ever before
who are to the disgust of all sensible
people tin-listing their peculiar, extreme i ,
and impracticable opinions into public ” llwr rc,l,h l,kc n '' oma,K ' u > and who is
in many respects a remarkable man. lit
in ’7fi, like a moral avalanche, was still
alive in South Carolina. Berkeley coun
ty is larger than the state of Rhode
Island, and many of the delegates had to
come two days’ ride on horseback to
reach the county seat, and yet, out of two
hundred delegates, there was not a man
missing nor a proxy vote. And then
these men, assembled in sight of the
ruins and brick dust and smoke of the
queenly metropolis of the Carolinas, and
with their own houses, some in ruins
and some propped up with poles and
posts, and their wives and children still
camping out, these men met and nomin
ated a full straight-out demo
cratic ticket, and swore
a mighty oath in the form of a resolution
that Berkeley county should be ruled by
republicans no more forever. It
will tako something worse
than earthquakes to conquer
men like the ones who composed that
convention. There was nothing dra
matic about the convention, but remem
bering all the circumstances, the spirit it
breathed reminds one of the days of
Leovidas and Spartaeus, and Sparta,
when tlie young men made their toilets
as gladly for a battle as n bridal, and
greeted the cold kiss of death with a
smile when it comes in the form of honor.
When Berkeley county goes demo
cratic tlie leopard will have changed his
spots and the Ethiopian his skin. The
carrying of the county democratic would
perhaps have a greater direct etleet upon
state and national politics than any other
county in the United States could possi
bly have. First, it would change Un
political complexion of the only republi
can congressional district in South Caro
lina ; it would break the spirit of the re
publican party throughout the state ; and
it would retire from congress Robert
Smalls, the only negro with one excep
tion now left in congress, and the only
ox-convict without any exception who
ever represented a district in congress.
The men of Berkeley county evidently
meant what they said in their resolution
about carrying tlie county democratic.
During the session of the convention,
Captain Ostendorf, the republican county
chairman, sent in a written proposition
to nominate a coalition ticket. Tlie
proposition was rejected with scorn and
hisses, and the full democratic ticket was
nominated. The most important ollicc
in that county is that of sheriff, and it i.-
wortli $7)000 a year. Tim nominee for
sheriil' is (’aptaiii William M. Hale,whose
notice. General Anderson S. Wood
concludes a published correspondence
on female-sufferage with an cxortalion
to all the women in the state of New
York to demand registration and a vote,
as their legal right, in tlie coming dele
tion. Any limb of the law would be
better authority as to their legal rights
than a political crank. In the matter of
| is a steamship captain by proles-
i sion, and during the , war be-
| tween the states, his feats of skill and
daring as a blockade runner were the
j topic of the day oil both side-s of the
! water. Captain Hale had never been
j in polities until the canvass which has
| just resulted in his nomination; and Un
political and religious tunes the north ! "' i,v ‘l m llcrs and politicians had regarded
seems to be having a monopoly.
A Wasiiinuton special ton republican
newspaper yesterday says: “Treasury
officials show figures to prove that better
times for the entire country are at the
very doors of the people, a condition of
affairs not the result of any political
move, hut natural cm-unittaiuvs.” Is it
possible! Why it was only a little while
ago that the republican press told us
that the election of a democratic presi
dent meant the repudiation of our
national obligations, the pensioning of
“rebels,” bankruptcy, ruin, and the utter
destruction of every industry in the land.
Now tliev admit that with tlie elect ion of
tquelching him as an easy job. But the
old blockade runner lias a flow of elo
quence that only belongs to men as a
gilt and which no art or culture can ever
imitate, and in the canvass he badly
worsted several powerful competitors,
lie will be elected. And he will make a
model sheriff, lie never feared the face
of man on land or sea, and yet he is ns
tender as a woman. The writer ol
this lias set-ii Captain Hale bor
row $7> and give it to
a child whose parents were both sick
anti unable to work. Criminals will not
sutler in tin- hands of a man like that,
nor will the interest of the county mid of
his constituents sutler in his hands. The
a democratic president came a restora- ! earthquake will prove a blessing to South
lion of national prosperity, hut thul it is | ^ urolinn il its upheavals should bring a
not due to political causes.
few more men like W,
surface ns pit pi it- officials.
M. 1 lale to the
IIKt.ltEEs OK ( lilll K.
It is funny that a minister should,
while engaged in delivering a discourse
against tlie use of impropr language,liirn-
self at the very time lie guilty of most
intemperate speech. Such was tlie case
with Mr. Tulmage the other day, who,
when preat liing to a congregation in one
of the populous suburbs of New York,
said that profanity or blasphemy was
“worse than arson, burglary and mur
der.” Mr. Talmage had rather listen to
whole troops of blasphemers, “swearing
worse than the army in Flanders,” than
have one vicious scoundrel break into
his dwelling house by night and set
it on fire and murder tlie inmates.
Any teaching which tends to demoralize
society and to reverse the degrees of
crime in the penal code is a proper sub
ject of criticism by the secular as well as
the religious press. Profanity or blasp
hemous language is always unnecessary
and ungentlemanly, and wicked and de
plorable; but it is a crime chiefly against
tlie Divine Ruler, while murder, arson,
burglary and kindred offenses are crimes
of the highest order, not only against
God, hut of the blackest dye, against
one’s neighbors and against soeietv.
Til K KI.Kt’TKIN AMI THK M At'OX TKI.Kti IIA I'll.
The following from the Macon Tele
graph of the ffth expresses some views in
which we do not concur:
Georgia elects a governor amt legislature to
day. Beyoiul those counties in which there may
be a contest over legislative candidates, there
will be no excitement and but little interest.
This is not a healthy indication. The life of a
state and the interests of the people are best pro
moted where there is an active contest over the
selection of public servants.
A lopsided political organization cannot long
retain its discipline and usefulness. It must be
come the prey of small men and cliques and
rings. Great parties develop great men.
We understand the writer to character
ize the democratic party of Georgia as a
lop-sided organization because in the
election just passed there has been at the
polls no active opposition to its nomi
nees; because there has been no pulling,
scrambling, fighting, cheating and vote-
huving in the various precincts through
out the state; because the laboring classes
have not left the fields, the work shops
and the looms, to spend a day in fever
ish excitement over the fancied merits of
some aspirant for office ; because tlie in
telligent masses have seen proper to ac
cept tlie men whom tlie conventions,
state and county, have placed in nomi
nation.
Does the Telegraph want another party-
in this state? If so, out of what mate
rials would it proceed to construct it?
Would it have the democratic party raise
an issue within its own circle and
split itself in twain? If so,
upon what issue? Or would he have
democrats to leave the democratic ranks
and join the old negro or republican
party, and revive and reanimate that
stencliful oaganization? We have been
accustomed totliink that issues made par
ties and that without i-.-ues therecolud be i
no earthly necessity for contending or-
grnizations. Now, what issues are there j
before the people of Georgia upon which !
they can divide? What questions are
there of state or finance that cannot be
considered and settle-1 within the party-
limits? To create parties without princi
ples and merely for the sake of having
riotous contentions at the voting
places over mere personal preferences
would be folly. But if it be true “ that
the life of a state and tlie interests of tlie
people are best promoted where there is
an active contest over the selection of
public servants,” then was not the con
test active enough during the Gordon-
Bacou campaign? Was there not
enough vituperation, enough heart burn
ings engendered during that contest, to
satisfy tlie helicose tendencies of the
Telegraph? The Telegraph says that a !
lopsided party must become the prey of!
small men, and cliques, and rings. There i
are men enough inside the party out of |
office, and anxious to gei in office, to -
watch those who are already- in. When
there, is danger of losing party ascendancy
then the danger is that members of the
party will, to save the party’s reputa
tion and to keep party opponents from
making capital, conceal and hide the ,
faults and short-comings of their fellows, I
hut when no such motives for conceal
ment exist, then tin- members of the |
same party are watchful enough of the j
conduct and doings of their officials.
Great parties do not develop great men, !
but great issues do. Parties without j
issues, where there is nothing to contend
for hut the spoils of oliicc, develop, if
they develop anything, only thieves and
men who look to the loaves and fishes
to repay them for their great outlay-
while contending for the mastery.
When Wall street rings undertake a
corner on coal, as they have done re
cently, then they become A-ery odious to !
the people of New York city. That was ■
bringing their speculations too close to I
home. So long as the speculators deal
in such of the necessities of life as affect [
only distant communities, it is all right.
It makes a mighty difference whose ox
lias been gored.
Accorded Our Last Sunday’s Advertisement.
LOTS AND CORDS
OF
Handsome Wool and Si Dress Goods Novelties
SOLD.
We are very much obliged to the ladies, and promise
them a rare treat for this week. We have telegraphed for
second shipment in Novelty Dress Goods, and they will he
here Monday or Tuesday. We can’t describe them, because
we haven't seen them. We simply wired right to head
quarters for style and elegance, “Send us 50 handsome Wool
Dress Goods Novelty Suits—your very lutes/ importation''
So every lady who read this may expect to see some pretty,
nobby Dry Goods.
We are showing a Dress Goods stock that would be a
credit to any city in the south. II is choice, and not neces
sity. when our people send away for their goods,
25 Pieces beautiful CHANGEABLE BROCADES at 18 cents.
35 Pieces 6-4 CASHMERES, blacks anrl colors, at 15 cents.
20 Pieces 6-4 CASHMERES, lilacks and colors, at 25 cents.
15 Pieces 0-4 beautiful BERLIN DIAGONALS at 4 cents.
There is no trash in these goods. They are .jusl such
values as close buyers call cheap. All the new shades in All
Wool Cashmeres. Hindoo Serges. Cords and Diagonals, front
50c to $1 50 per yard.
Dress Trimmings! Dress Trimmings!
We think that tlie Trimming is half the Dress, and have
bought Dress Trimmings accordingly. A world of beautiful
Button Clasps. FEATHER TRIMMINGS, all shades; Fur
Trimmings, Braids and Beaded Gimps, and a number of other
styles of Dress Trimmings.
Ask to see our Dollar Black Bilk.
Ask to see our DoJ/ar Black B/iailrnne.
Ask to see our Dollar Black Burak. \
All the light shades in Surahs at 75c, and a number of special bargains in the !
Dress Goods stock which we can’t mention here.
Trunks! Trunks! Trunks ! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
Blanchard, Booth & Huff.
FOR RENT.
The Jordan Brick Dwelling, upper Jackson 8t.
The Russell Dwelling, opposite Crawford’s.
Five room Dwelling on Jackson street, op
posite Bedell’s.
Peabody’s new five room Dwelling, Rose Hill.
The Newman Dwelling, 8 rooms, kitchen and
stable.
Col. Holt’s Brick Store, near Swill’s mill.
Store on Broad street, north of the Epping
House.
The Dessau Dwelling, Rose Hill.
The De-sau Store, Rose Hill.
FOR SALE.
Dwelling and 40 a ires in Beallwood.
Quarter acre lot north Jackson street.
L. H. CHAPPELL.
Broker, Real Estate and Insurance Agent.
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ESTABLISHED 1866.
The one dollar silver certificates having
on them the likeness of Martha Wash
ington, the wife of the Father of His
Country, will shortly be in circulation,
as a distribution of these certificates
from the sub-treasury has been made to
the banks.
Ik a conference of the powers should
decree that Russia should keep her
hands off Bulgaria and leave the popula
tion of t lie Balkan countries to manage
their own affairs, a defiance of that de
cision would no doubt bring on a general
war. In that case Russia’s difficulty
would lit- England’s opportunity. A
resolute English government could take
a very long step toward ending the
question of the Afghan boundary unfa
vorably to Russia while Russia had her
hands lull in southeastern Europe. It is
generally safer, nevertheless, to trust to
the probability that tlie peace will be
kepi in Europe than to trust to rumors
of war, however threatening and definite
tliev in iv he.
G. GUN BY JORDAN
Fire Insurance Agent,
Telephone No. 104.
Honestly
Pioneer Building, Front Street.
REPRESENTING
AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of Philadelphia,
paid every loss since 1810.
NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of New York. Every policy
issued under New York Safety Fund law.
SUN FIRE OFFICE, of London. Established 1710. Always
successful.
Policies issued on all classes of insurable property.
Represciitiithc t’ompies, Courteous Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments.
A share of your business solicited.
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Siiki.i.s from Shcrm.tiiV long Toms
struck the marble blocks of the new
South Carolina capitol. lire blackened
I ln-tn, eiUTupt legislators hacked off the
corners and 1 lit-grumble-some earthquake
-lid w hat il could to shake them apart.
But in spite of all this tin- new capitol,
projected in I s',;;, now begins to look like
a big house worthy of the Sumtcrs and
Marions of patriotic memory.
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OPENING DAY!
Thursday, October 7th.
Every time Mark Twain lias a new
baby horn in his home lie celebrates the
event by erecting a stone watering
trough for horses somewhere on the
l’oad lea-ling to his summer home at
Elmira, and troughs are now scattered
all along t lie road, with more to come.
Is the best general purpose wire feneein use. It is a atrona net-work withnnt barbs. Don’t
..... . . ........ .. . . . •- I’ell as horses and cattle. The best fence
neat.pretty stylos for Lawns, Parks.
.v.vw ...... vvu.c.v..ro. I .*., wn.i itmi-u.um i»«.nt,or made of galvanized wire, as pre
ferred. It will last a life-time. It is better than boards or barbed wire In every respect. Give it a
fair trial; it will wear itself into favor. The Sedgwick Cintes made of wrought-iron pipe and
steel wire, defy all competition in lightnoca, neatness,strength and durability. We make the best,
cheapest and easiest working nil-iron nutomntic or self-open inn ante, and the neatest
cheap iron fences now made. Tin* best Wire Stretcher, Cutting Pliers mill Post Angers.
For prices and particulars ask Hardware Dealers, or address, mentioning paper,
SEDGWICK BROS., Richmond, Ind.
A CARD.
To all who are anfforlug from the errors and
Indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, oarly
-lecay, loss of manhood, ,Ve., I will send a recipe
- hat will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This groat
remody was discovered by a missionary in South
America. Send a solf-addresse-I envelope to the
Rev. Joseph T. Inman, station D, Xtm Vork City.
sepll eod&tvly -fol r m)
Catarrh
IE LAST'S
Cold in Hoad,
CATARRH,
HAY FEVER.
I Not a Liquid, Snuff or
’owder. Free from
usurious drugs and
ensive odors.
A particle is applied into each nostril and is
agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggists; by mail,
registered 50 eta. Circulars free. ELY BROS.,
Druggists, Owego, N. Y. aug3 eodawtf arm
THE BOSS PRESS
Is Without a Rival.
THE LIDDELL VARIABLE FEED SAW MILL,
Is the very best Saw Mill in tlie market. It took the only
medal of the first class at the New Orleans Exposition.
For the above, and for all other machinery, address,
FORBES LIDDELL&CO.,
Montgomery, Ala.
N. B.—Our stock of Wrought Iron, Pipe, Fittings and
Machinery is the largest in this part of the country.
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On tlie above date we will ex
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EVERY LADY IN
GEORGIA, CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY.
To all whom it may concern: E. J. Wynn hav
ing applied to me for letters of administration on
the estate of J. J. McCook, of the state of Louisi
ana, deceased, situate in this state:
This is to cite all and singular the creditors
and next of kin of the said J. J. McCook, to be
and appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by law, and show cause, if any they can,
why letters of administration should not be
granted to the said E. J. Wynn on the estate of
said J, J. McCook situate in this state.
